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Frozen vegetables: better way?

We really don't like frozen vegetables.I have a large bag of Kirkland Normandy style vegetable blend and I want to use it up and never buy any.Is there a way or a recipe I could ameliorate the insipid taste?

(post #37730, reply #4 of 21)

I googled to see what the Normandy blend contained, and found broccoli, cauliflower and two different types of carrot. Why don't you roast them with olive oil, shallots and lots of seasonings? Add fresh herbs, if you have them, at the end. IMO, this treatment would really perk them up.

(post #37730, reply #3 of 21)

I just used up two bags of TJ's frozen veggie mix (peas, carrots, green beans) that DH bought. I made rice (pilaf style) and then mixed the veggies into the cooked rice. I sauteed the frozen veggies briefly in some garlic oo.

DH loves that necause he used to live on it before we met LOL. He would just add some beans and some cheese and eat it for DAYS. Every so often I think he gets nostalgic and buys bags of frozen veggies. Of course he doesn't make his magic meal and I have to figure out something to do with them.

I have nothing agains frozen veggies, I just don't like the mixes. I prefer just peas or corn.

Water is a great ingredient to cook with, it has such a neutral flavor - Bobby Flay

Water is a great ingredient to cook with, it has such a neutral flavor - Bobby Flay

(post #37730, reply #14 of 21)

I bought them to have convenient, fast veggies in case I had not any on hand and no time to go to the supermarket and fix them.But it happened it had been a few months already and I still have the bag.

(post #37730, reply #16 of 21)

Vegetable soup... simmer it all until tender in a flavorful chicken broth, then puree and season to taste with a bit of butter and/or cream. Yummy!

"Attend to the details. Teach your children manners. Write cogent paragraphs. Drive carefully. And make a good potato salad, one with some crunch, maybe accompanied by a fried drumstick with crackly skin -- the humble potato and the stupid chicken, ennobled by diligent cooking -- and is this not the meaning of our beautiful country, to take what is common and enable it to become beautiful?"

(post #37730, reply #18 of 21)

I almost always use frozen veggies for soup (except potatoes). Once they simmer with all that yummy flavorful stuff, the taste difference is negligible.

"Attend to the details. Teach your children manners. Write cogent paragraphs. Drive carefully. And make a good potato salad, one with some crunch, maybe accompanied by a fried drumstick with crackly skin -- the humble potato and the stupid chicken, ennobled by diligent cooking -- and is this not the meaning of our beautiful country, to take what is common and enable it to become beautiful?"